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It takes a village to raise a library, and many of them showed up to celebrate the halfway point of construction at the West Tisbury Library last week. Foundation work is complete on the $6 million project and framing on the building has begun. The “topping off ceremony” marked the placement of the highest beam. Building committee members, library foundation members, selectmen and trustees participated in the ceremony.
Tisbury selectmen will move their regularly scheduled meetings to the Tisbury Senior Center for the remainder of the summer. Meetings will be held at the senior center, where there is air conditioning, until mid-September. The time of the meetings remains the same, 5:30 p.m.
The nursery at the Animal Shelter is empty. Every one of the kittens was placed with a new family, having been spayed or neutered, immunized and given a microchip. They are in our records permanently, so if Tom or Tabby should wander off, the Animal Shelter can identify the little wanderer and, hopefully, return him/her to the owner. Keeping your cat indoors is recommended, especially now that summer brings a heavy increase in traffic.
Mariners are being urged to proceed with caution through the waters of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket following the probable sighting Sunday of three right whales north of Oak Bluffs.
The whales were spotted two and three miles offshore, said Tim Cole, a fisheries biologist with the National Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole.
Less than 450 Atlantic right whales are known to be in existence, making them one of the most endangered marine mammals in this area.
The Unitarian Universalist Society on Main street in Vineyard Haven will welcome its new part-time minister, the Rev. Bill Clark at this Sunday’s 11 a.m. service. Mr. Clark has agreed to serve officially beginning in August. His topic for the July 14 service is The Center, and will examine the idea of finding a spiritual and emotional center.
Running Free, a 36-and-a-half foot sailboat that ran aground at Norton Point beach on Friday, was still languishing on the beach Wednesday morning after salvage and refloating efforts failed. Meanwhile, visitors to the site were reported to be stripping the boat of its contents.